Early life

Blackburn was born in Burbank, California. He has three brothers and a sister. He is of English, Welsh, Czech, Swedish and Cherokee descent.

Career

Acting

Blackburn began performing in 2002 and appeared on the series Unfabulous on Nickelodeon. In the following year he was a teacher in the short film The Doers of Coming Deeds. In 2005, he made a cameo in the film Next of Kin. In 2007, Blackburn appeared in Cold Case and Rock ville CA, a webseries launched by Josh Schwartz. In 2010, he appeared on Days of Our Lives, Gigantic, and was also in the independent film Peach Plum Pear.

In October 2010, Blackburn was cast in a recurring role as Caleb Rivers in the TV series Pretty Little Liars. He was upgraded to series regular for the third season starting in the summer of 2012. In March 2011, he joined the cast of the NBC comedy pilot Brave New World, which was not picked up to series.

Blackburn also starred as Pete in the six-episode webseries Wendy, a project developed by Alloy Entertainment and Macy's that premiered on September 15, 2011.

In 2012, he starred in drama Hiding alongside Ana Villafañe, Jeremy Sumpter, Dean Armstrong and Dan Payne.

In May 2013, it was announced that Blackburn was joining the cast of Pretty Little Liars's spin-off Ravenswood.

Music

For his role in Alloy Entertainment webseries Wendy, Blackburn recorded a song that was released on August 15, 2011.

He recorded another song for the ABC Family television show, Secret Life of the American Teenager.

He recorded Find A Way in 2012 and the song played while he was starring as Caleb Rivers in Pretty Little Liars

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
2006	The Doers of Coming Deeds	Solly Katz	Short
2005	Next of Kin	French student
2010	Peach Plum Pear	Jesse Pratt
2012	Hiding	Jesse	Main role
2016	Love Is All You Need?	Ryan Morris	Upcoming film
2016	Hello Again	Jack	Filming
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Unfabulous	Nathan	2 episodes
2009	Cold Case	Foster / Jeff Feldman	1 episode
	Rockville, CA	Spencer	1 episode
2010	Days of Our Lives	Ian	17 episodes
	Gigantic	Echo	1 episode
2011	Wendy	Pete	Web series
2011-present	Pretty Little Liars	Caleb Rivers	Recurring role (Seasons 1-2); Main role (Seasons 3-present)
2013-14	Ravenswood	Caleb Rivers	Lead role; 10 episodes

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2014	Teen Choice Awards	"Choice Summer TV Star: Male"	Pretty Little Liars	Won
2015	Teen Choice Awards			Won

[ Source: Wikipedia ]